Age is considered a taboo, especially for the ladies.

年龄是一个非常忌讳的问题, 对于女士尤其如此。

Selecting from a growing number of funeral options necessitates conversations about death, once a taboo.

从越来越多的葬礼仪式中进行选择就要谈到死亡的话题，这曾经是一个禁忌。

We don't talk about it because it's taboo.

我们不谈是因为这是禁忌。

It was also taboo to work alongside men.

与男性一起工作也是一种禁忌。

Think of the most taboo insult that is possible in English.

想想英语中最忌讳的侮辱。

However, there are other words that are a bit more taboo.

然而，还有一些更忌讳的词。

Since we started in 2008, the taboo on drugs is broken.

从2008年开始到现在， 毒品禁忌已经打破。

For many of the women there, the word for " widow" is taboo.

对那里的很多女性来说，“寡妇”一词是个忌讳。

Openly speaking about the royal succession is taboo, something not to be discussed.

公开谈论王室的继承问题是大忌，有些事情是不能拿来讨论的。

Not sure how to talk about something taboo politely, well, let's learn.

不知道如何礼貌地谈论一些禁忌，那么，让我们学习一下。

And finally, a taboo is a subject that avoided for social or religious reasons.

最后，“taboo”是指出于社会或宗教原因而避而不谈的话题。

But by the 1920s, the taboo was gone and women smoked openly and widely.

但是到了 20 世纪 20 年代，禁忌消失了，女性公开广泛吸烟。

Each of these topics——both approved and taboo —— will be discussed more detail later.

这些被允许的以及禁忌的话题将容后逐一详细说明。

Melusine's tale is a combination of these stories as well as the lying-in taboo.

梅鲁辛的故事是这些故事和产妇禁忌的结合。

And because ruff said such social prestige, not wearing one, was, in a way, taboo.

由于拉夫领在社会上享有很高的地位，某种程度上，不穿拉夫就变成了一种禁忌。

The other speaker can change the subject to show that this is a taboo subject.

对方可能会改变话题，以表示这个话题是个禁忌。

Buddhist monasteries have sacred sites, areas where taboos are placed on the hunting and killing of animals.

佛寺设有神圣的处所，那里的戒律禁止捕杀动物。

Perhaps such terms have simply become less taboo, sceptics suggest. But it is more than talk.

持怀疑态度的人认为，也许“重度抑郁发作”类似的术语已经被滥用了。但这不仅仅是说说而已。

My mother acted like a waixiao, an emigrant, no longer patient with old taboos and courtesies.

我母亲行事像个“外侨”，即一个移民国外的侨民，因为她已经不耐烦老一套的禁忌和礼数了。

And it's even taboo for them to speak up when the business model is under pressure.

而且当公司经历坎坷的时候，指出问题会让他们受到责难。